The check in validators prevented connections from non-validators.
Non-validators could still participate in the network if they laundered their
connection through a malicious validator. allow_block_list ensures that peers,
not connections, are explicitly limited to validators.
Moves UpdateSharedValidatorsTask to validators.rs. While prior planned to
re-use a validators object across connecting and peer state management, the
current plan is to use an independent validators object for each to minimize
any contention. They should be built infrequently enough, and cheap enough to
update in the majority case (due to quickly checking if an update is needed),
that this is fine.
TaskHandle::close meant run_now may panic if the task was closed. Now, tasks
are only closed when all handles are dropped, causing all handles to point to
running tasks (ensuring run_now won't panic).
Renames `label` to `round` since `Label` was renamed to `SigningProtocolRound`.
Adds some more context-less validation to transactions which used to be done
within the custom decode function which was simplified via the usage of borsh.
Documents in processor-messages where the Coordinator sends each of its
messages.
It's not only helpful (to easily check where Serai's view of the external
network is) but it's necessary in case of a non-trivial chain fork to determine
which blockchain Serai considers canonical.
If Substrate has a block 500 with a key gen, and a block 600 with a key gen,
and the session starting on 500 never cosigns everything, everyone up-to-date
will want the cosigns for the session starting on block 500. Everyone
up-to-date will also be rebroadcasting the non-existent cosigns for the session
which has yet to start. This wouldn't cause a stall as eventually, each
individual set would cosign the latest notable block, and then that would be
explicitly synced, but it's still not the intended behavior.
We also won't even intake the cosigns for the latest intended session if it
exceeds the session we're currently evaluating. This does mean those behind on
the cosigning protocol wouldn't have rebroadcasted their historical cosigns,
and now will, but that's valuable as we don't actually know if we're behind or
up-to-date (per above posited issue).
We read from it but never writ to it.
It was used to check we didn't flag a block as notable after reporting it, but
it was called by the scan task as it scanned a block. We only batch/report
blocks after the scan task after scanning them, so it was very redundant.
It's only there to make the VariantSignid unique across Sessions. By localizing
the VariantSignid to a Session, we avoid this, and can better ensure we don't
queue work for historic sessions.
This is incomplete at this time. The logic is fine, but needs to be moved to a
distinct location to handle singular blocks which produce multiple Batches.
